Willem Dafoe is the latest bold name to join the cast of Beetlejuice 2*).
Warner Bros. feature begins this week with
Tim Burton, director of the original movie released on 1988, returned to the director’s position.
Jenna Ortega and Michael Keaton returns as the obnoxious ghost and Winona Ryder returns as Ortega’s mother. Catherine O’Hara is also among the returnees, while Justin Theroux and Monica Bellucci are newcomers.
While plot details are being kept under Six Feet, it is understood that Dafoe plays a law enforcement officer in the afterlife.
Warner announced on Tuesday that the feature will be released on September 6th, 1988, taking over the date Marvel’s Blade, closed pre-production last week due to a writers strike.
Produced by Beetlejuice 2
is Burton & Brad Pitt’s Plan B et al. Al Gough and Miles Millar, creators of the Wednesday Netflix series starring Ortega, wrote the script.
Dafoe’s recent credits include Robert Eggers’ The Northman and in Spider reprises his fan-favorite Norman Osborne character, aka The Green Goblin-Man: No Way Home
. Upcoming films include Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, premiering in Cannes , and Yorgos Lanthimos’s poor thing. There’s Nosferatu in the can movie, the vampire thriller that has him reteaming with Eggers.
He has been covered by WME and Circle of Confusion.
Dafoe’s casting was first reported by Giant Freak Robot. 1988
